When writing for the Web, good images add interest, highlight content, break up long chunks of text, and improve readability. When selecting images for your posts, remember to respect copyrights. It’s easy to go to Google Images and download a picture. But that image may very well be subject to copyright.
The sites listed below provide free images.
If possible, credit the photographer in the caption and provide “Alt” tags for accessibility. (People who are visually impaired often use screen readers, and “Alt” tags help parse web content.)
- flickr Creative Commons
- Unsplash
- Pixabay
- Boss Fight
- Jay Mantri
- Startup Stock Photos
- Massive Github repo of free resources
- Public Domain Pictures
- Public Domain Archive
- Little Visuals
- New Old Stock
- Pickup Image
- Magdeleine
- LibreShot
- Infographics: https://informationisbeautiful.net/
- Europeana: https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections
- Google Images: https://images.google.com search for public domain images
- Openverse (formerly CC search – openly licensed work): https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org
- NYPL Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/collection-search.html
- International Image Interoperability Framework: https://iiif.io/guides/finding_resources/